Clothes gender

[Vxr 15]

Do clothes now have a specific gender, take for example skirts and trousers, it used to be men in trousers and women in skirts but now most women preferably wear trousers and not skirts so does that mean men can wear skirts, this to me should be a given but when you say to the older generation of men they are 100% a No if a man wants to wear a skirt. I am a man who likes to wear a skirt and there is a few people who know this but I haven't said anything to any others due to the way they consider this to be a no no. This is just my own opinion on the subject. Discuss

[Andyf08]

I am like you and love wearing skirts, dresses etc. As far as I am concerned they are just clothes. Does it actually matter what I wear it is not hurting anyone. It is exactly the same as rainwear it's only a item of clothing. Wear and enjoy whatever you want.

[HeatherlovesPVC]

Do clothes now have a specific gender, take for example skirts and trousers, it used to be men in trousers and women in skirts but now most women preferably wear trousers and not skirts so does that mean men can wear skirts, this to me should be a given but when you say to the older generation of men they are 100% a No if a man wants to wear a skirt. I am a man who likes to wear a skirt and there is a few people who know this but I haven't said anything to any others due to the way they consider this to be a no no. This is just my own opinion on the subject. Discuss

Unfortunately skirts are still seen as gender specific, whether this is because clothing designers are unable to design skirts/dresses to suit a male body or a deeper rooted fear that any man who chooses to wear a skirt must be weird, strange and so therefore open to ridicule and/or harassment.

As a child of the seventies I thought it nearly changed when glam rock was the rage and acts like David Bowie, Marc Bolan and Sweet etc. pushed the gender clothing boundaries but unfortunately it petered out.

Whatever the reason skirts and dresses are still seen as taboo for men.

Writing this while wearing my new (for me) leather skirt

[ilikecoated]

I don't wear skirts in public. Simply because I don't feel that they look good on me or I in them.
I do however very often wear women's trousers and jeans in public. I don't wear boring straight women's denim in this case because there is an abundance of such in the male variants. But I wear flared and wide leg jeans and trousers, wide sailor jeans with front flap closure, side-zipped jeans and trousers, shiny vinyl jeans, matte coated jeans, leatherette jeans and real leather trousers etc... And once in a while a shiny rainjacket or raincoat.

But for my destruction sessions I mostly wear really feminine, leatherette, vinyl and leather garments including a skirt once in a while.